Lawsuit Over Top Brand Pet Food Marketing Reaches Supreme Court

Pet owners who sued two pet food makers over veterinarian’s prescription requirements urged the U.S. Supreme Court on Aug. 5 to overturn a precedent they fear will impede their case. Since its filing in Missouri in 2019, the heavily litigated class action lawsuit has bounced around between state and federal courts. “The jurisdictional skirmishes have consumed more than five years of judicial resources for a case that remains at the starting gate,” the pet owners said in newly filed court papers. The precedent, Grable and Sons Metal Products Inc. v. Darue Engineering and Manufacturing, is hard to interpret, and state and federal courts have repeatedly struggled to ascertain its meaning, they say....